A few years ago there was a similar phase at my current employment. Someone with a key position in the product team, who had become the primary conductor of the

A few years ago there was a similar phase at my current employment. Someone with a key position in the product team, who had become the primary conductor of the developers, attached an excessive importance to "delivering results" to her higher-ups. This manifested in a desire to stack up as many Jira tickets as possible in the "deployed" column between the releases that the product team digested into result summaries/breakdowns. I'm not sure how the pressure to show progress made it into the everyday concerns of me and the other developers, but for a period we regularly made up small contrived "problems" - nonsensically technical Jira tickets that nobody in the product team would ever bother to deconstruct - in order to produce enough "results".